Robust eyelid, eyelash and shadow localization for iris recognition
Zhaofeng He, Tieniu Tan, Zhenan Sun, Xianchao Qiu · 2008
Eyelids, eyelashes and shadows are three major challenges for effective iris segmentation, which have not been adequately addressed in the current literature. In this paper, we present a novel method to localize each of them. First, a novel coarse-line to fine-parabola eyelid fitting scheme is developed for accurate and fast eyelid localization. Then, a smart prediction model is established to determine an appropriate threshold for eyelash and shadow detection. Experimental results on the challenging CASIA-IrisV3-Lamp iris image database demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy and speed.